While the Italian stage of the European Poker Tour (EPT) has just crowned its champion, another stage began in Deauville. Like last year, this edition 2012 of the EPT Deauville is currently recording a huge success because the total field of the event is 889 participants generating a prize pool of  4,267,200. The organizers decided to reward the best 128 players in the game and the champion will receive a nice bonus of  875,000. One of the biggest stages of the circuit, the EPT Deauville has once again brought together poker pros just like Scotty Nguyen, the French number one Bertrand Grospellier, Eugene Katchalov, Victor Blom, Liv Boeree or Vanessa Rousso. Some of them have already left the party, as the defending champion Lucien Cohen who was eliminated 15 minutes before the close of the Day 1B.

After the first two qualifying days, they will be more than 546 players to take part in the Day 2 with 221 qualified on day 1A and 325 on Day 1B. Among the players who will still continue the adventure, there is Vanessa Rousso, Kara Scott, Anton Ionel, Arnaud Mattern, Nacho Barbero, Shannon Shorr, Ludovic Lacay and also Ari Engel. The French Amir Salhani occupies the position of chip leader at the start of Day 2. He holds 191,100 chips. Toufik Ouirini is in the second position followed by the chip leader of the Day 1A Kristijonas Andrulis.